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grunge
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grunge
a style of rock music originating in the US in the late 1980s, featuring a distorted guitar sound
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grunge - /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so.

2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code.


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There was Nashville contrarian Webb Wilder (of ``Horror Hayride'' fame) somehow managing to meld hillbilly and heavy metal with ``Human Cannonball,'' while Janet Weiss of the eternal Northwestern riot grrrl trio Sleater-Kinney evoked no less than grunge rock presagers Blue Cheer's tubthumper Paul Whaley with her hellbent drumming.
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5 jumped from classic rock to embrace the grunge rock sound, only to return to its original format again last year as the draw of grunge bands waned.
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